Deck Information

This Aggro Pirate Warrior guide will teach you how to play the recently popular Warrior deck from the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. It uses aggressive minions with Weapons and Weapon synergy to generate a lot of early game pressure to defeat your potion. Our Aggro Pirate Warrior guide includes Mulligans, Gameplay Strategy, Card Substitutions, and Combos/Synergies!

Pirate Warrior is very controversial because it has the ability to kill opponent’s very quickly and many view unfairly. This deck, however, can run out of steam and can be hurt with tech cards such as Golakka Crawler and Weapon removal like Acidic Swamp Ooze, Gluttonous Ooze, or Harrison Jones. One of the big weaknesses of this deck is that it contains no card draw, so if it draws a slow hand or a handful of weapons it can just lose on the spot.

Pirate Warrior is also susceptible to faster aggro decks like Token Druid, and is usually weak to Shaman because of cards like Maelstrom Portal. Heavy Taunt decks like Quest Warrior and decks that can clear away minions and heal themselves like Control Paladin are also good.

Update – Frozen Throne Aggro Pirate Warrior August 2017, Season 41

Pirate Warrior hasn’t gotten a ton to work with in the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion. Forge of Souls is a bit too slow for the deck, and while I’m adding Phantom Freebooter to this list it isn’t a necessary inclusion and you could just stick with Naga Corsair.

Starting Out Tips

First, don’t just throw a minion down on your first turn and immediately pass the turn. I can’t tell you how often I would absentmindedly do this while Patches the Pirate would be shot out of a cannon and make me feel like a fool. This is an aggressive deck, but it doesn’t mean you have to play every card at lightning speed! Another card that tripped me up in the beginning was Bloodsail Cultist. For some reason I thought it buffed a weapon if you had a weapon equipped, unfortunately for me it requires that you have a Pirate on the board. Hopefully these couples of tips will save you some of the embarrassment I originally went through.

Why is Patches the Pirate Good?

I see this question a lot so I’d like to address it. Patches is a minion that lands on your board for free the majority of the time unless you get him in your first draw or mulligan. Think of it as starting the game off with a 1/1 minion already on the board, and a deck that has 29 cards in it. A thinner deck enables you to draw more reliably. Also, starting off with a 1/1 minion on your board for free gives you a pretty nice advantage. Patches is also a Pirate, which in a Pirate synergistic deck means you’ll be able to enable cards like Bloodsail Cultist more easily on curve.

Think about this first turn on The Coin: N'Zoth's First Mate, The Coin, Patches hits the board, you play Southsea Deckhand. You get a 1/3 Weapon, two 1/1s, and a 2/1 on turn one. That’s a pretty crazy first turn and is difficult for your opponent to deal with.

Frozen Throne Aggro Pirate Warrior Mulligan Guide and Strategy

First thing is, you always want to throw back Patches. Let him come out for free, that’s the whole reason to have him in your deck. N'Zoth's First Mate, Southsea Deckhand are what you want in your hand. Fiery War Axe and Bloodsail Raider are also kept cards, if you have the Axe you can consider keeping Dread Corsair since he will only cost 1, or even zero if you have something like Upgrade! in your hand. Speaking of Upgrade!, this is also a card to consider keeping if you already have a Fiery War Axe or N’Zoth’s First Mate in your hand.

Frozen Throne Aggro Pirate Warrior Win Rates

Frozen Throne Aggro Pirate Warrior Play Strategy

Pressure and damage to the face is the name of the game with this very aggressive deck. Now, that doesn’t mean you should send every Weapon charge to the face, in fact the Weapons are normally better used for keeping their board relatively clean while your fragile minions continue to punish your opponent. You want consistent and repetitive damage with your minions, but trading away a couple 1/1s to preserve a larger minion on your board is usually the correct play.

Using your Weapon charges also greatly depends on what you have in your hand. If your hand is clogged with Weapons then you should be more readily using up the charges. This is especially the case with N’Zoth’s First Mate’s weapon, you are going to have stronger weapons to get to in the later game so it can be best to use it up while you can.

In Aggro matchups, you want to make trades as efficiently as possible so you are dictating the terms. You’ll only go hard to the face when you make your final push for lethal. Aggro decks have a hard time coming back into the game. In the Pirate Warrior mirror, they won’t be able to draw into many cards. In these Aggro matches, you can pretty much flood the board as quickly as possible because there’s rarely any AOE issues (unless it’s Shaman with Maelstrom Portal).

Control matchups are the times where you can’t really afford to make trades. You need to pressure them and force them to keep playing on the back foot. If they are able to eliminate your early threats you’ll have a hard time coming back in the game unless you find yourself able to build up a large damage combo with stuff like Heroic Strike and Leeroy Jenkins.

Aggro decks test your ability to understand how to play your hand. You’ll have to learn how to judge when it’s time to go all-in, and when you should trade. If you are against the ropes, then it’s best to just throw it all on the board and see if they can answer it. If they have the answers, well you were probably going to lose anyway. On the other hand, you’ll win some games you had no business winning because they didn’t have the cards to stop you.

Frozen Throne Aggro Pirate Warrior Card Substitutions

Patches the Pirate – Patches still appears in multiple decks and is definitely worth crafting. You could add Mortal Strike or even Golakka Crawler which can be used on your opponent’s Pirates and even your own.

Bittertide Hydra – You could run double Mortal Strike or go with Naga Corsair for a cheaper option.

How? This deck is basically a coin toss. If you don’t have the right cards within the first 6 turns, you’ve already lost, and if you’ve withered the enemy down enough where you’re relying on a Mortal Strike or Leeroy- that doesn’t sound very productive.

I’m losing about 65% of my games. Too many druids, priests, and now with lifesteal as a factor, and all these taunts in the game- this deck doesn’t work consistently enough to rank up.

Hey hearthstonetoodecks, thanks for this amazing deck, had a lot of success with it, climbed to rank 5 in an afternoon. Just wondering if there is any space for improvement, for example I think naga corsair is not impactful enough and the stat distribution makes her easy to remove. How do you think of 2 nagas? Will it be better to trade 1 or both nagas for tech cards?

If you just look at the card he’s a bit meh – like Thalnos he’s not got the *Wooooooooh! big shiny legendary monster!* factor. But like Thalnos it’s what he brings to the game for the cost…

In most games (i.e. running a pirate package) he’s a free 1/1 charge creature, with Pirate synergy, that thins your deck by a card – so he’s good in aggro decks (obviously) but also combo decks where you’re thinning your deck to hit the win condition; he’s like extra value from the Swashburglars in Miracle Rogue. Token decks can run a couple cheap pirates as well and Patches adds a free charge body on the board that turn, which could be significant with Bloodlust or Savage Roar.

It annoys me slightly that the card is so ubiquitous – but there is a reason for that.

Execute requires an activator, I think it’s awful in this deck. I’d try replacing Leeroy with spellbreaker; this way you con silence a taunt and go face with your minions or hero. Other posibilities are golakka crawler, ravasaur runt or a charge minion like argent commander or wolfrider (I’m not a fan of reckless at all but it could also work).

Quit complaining, its a game. A game is meant to be won.. as stated in other posts, if a better deck is available, why play a crappy one… we all have to deal with it. Good luck and hope you face one soon.

I think that mortal strike is much better than a minion , wich in best case is a 5/2 or a 2/2 with dive shield or windfury. Mortal strike is better because it can be a finisher just like leroy, and if your opponent has a taunt is better to slam 4 or 6 dmg to his face 🙂

This deck works great- I never played a warrior in my life before today and I went from rank 25 to rank 11 in just a few hours.

I do understand why so many people are frustrated with it though- its very dependent on getting the cards you need in the opening hand. If you don’t get lucky at the beginning there’s a good chance you won’t even be able to play a card until turn 4-5 when its already too late.

That being said, if you do manage to get the main cards in your opening draw, this deck plows over every opponent.

Ok, can someone maybe help me out? I can’t seem to get a very good win rate with this deck, I’m missing leeroy and 2nd Southsea using small time instead but I am running the rest of the list. the deck seems temperamental and I’m often outplayed by other decks by turn 5. Any Tips?

I’m playing the deck without a second Captain with the account of my girlfriend and put in a Golokka Crawler, if you can eat an enemy pirate well, maybe you don’t want 1 health minions on the board so you eat your own pirate and sometimes you have to be careful what you Play first to not eat your own guys if you don’t want to but last season I had an incredible Win strike fron 15 to 5 without a lost. But I crafted Leeroy before for her. Before that she used a Reckless Rocketer. A greenskin will work too I think, or Argent Commander but Leeroy is definetly better. Maybe you put a Hungry Crab in to tech Paladin decks.
Sometimes you just have to accept, that you will loose because of no Business but trade minions or kill minios with your weapon is an important decision, sometime trading with minions is better if you cann go leathel in one or 2 turns then

I am rank 7 (I reached it with others decks) and I don’t think this is a Tier 1 deck. I have this Pirate Warrior deck and the only good matchups are Priest, Jade Druid and Quest Rogue. It is bad against Midrange Paladin, Midrange Hunter, Miracle Rogue, Token Druid, Burn Mage. So it is bad against the most decks of the current meta. (May 2017)

Hey evident I wanted to ask in the top part of the guide it is mentioned you can sub in green skin for a naga cursair but is it better to sub in green skin or leave the naga cursair in as I got it recently from a pack and was wondering if I shoul put green skin in the deck

Pros dont use it in their deck, but I cant really see why. Yes, it is 1 mana slower than a Naga, but the upgrade to the weapon is so much better! I personally love Greenskin. I know I am also in the minority.

I think I know why there are so many complaints (now). The deck has absolutely zero draw. If you don’t have a perfect hand at the start, or mulligan a perfect hand, you STILL might not have a win if you have crap draws. I used to play this deck (with a Greenskin as I had no Leeroy) when I had Sir Finley. Even then if I didn’t get a Warlock hero power with Finley it was a bad game.

I don’t play ranked, so maybe at the top things are different. However, I have great success with swapping out the following in Casual. Take AT LEAST TWO out of the following, up to FOUR:
1.) Take out Patches. (Really HSTD…you guys love this card. We get it. I actually pulled a Patches. Didn’t have to craft him. He’s a decent card. Would he be worth 100 dust to craft? Probably. Is he worth 400 dust to craft? Not really. Is he worth 1600 dust to craft? HELL NO. His ONLY buff in this deck is SSC)
2.) Take out 2 of either Mortal and/or Heroic Strike. Tough call. One of either, or 2 of both. I prefer one each.
3.) Take out 1 of the N’Zoths.

Add:
1.) Two Battle Rage. Your hero WILL be damaged. Your minions will likely be damaged, and you’ve removed a couple of the 1 health minions.
2.) If you took out at least 3 cards and one was a Mortal Strike, add a Polluted Hoarder.
1.) Add a Commanding Shout.

That’s really given me the draw I need, at least for just pretty much constant wins at Casual. Like I said, your Netdeckers that only play Legendary will probably find flaws in it, but this works for me.

We don’t just come up with these opinions out of nothing, they are based on statistics from various sites like Metastats, Vicious Syndicate, HSReplay, and sites with opinions from pros like Tempo Storm. There has literally never been a version of Pirate Warrior that has not played Patches the Pirate since he’s been released. You are severely underestimating the cards power if you think he’s not worth being in this deck. You do realize that he’s also played in Aggro Druid AND Crystal Rogue? These are three of the better decks in the meta right now, so yes it is well worth 1,600 dust.

Patches gives you extra chip damage in the early game, and also allows you to trade efficiently with weapons and/or minions. Getting a free 1/1 on the board in the early game is extremely powerful.

The cards you suggest are fringe cards that are generally not worth adding to the deck.

Battle Rage is not that useful because the majority of the time you are either trading with your weapon or fully trading your minions. It can be a dead card in the early game, and is just an okay draw in the mid-game because you are usually looking for damage at that point.

You would NEVER take out a N’Zoth’s First Mate. It’s one of the best early game cards you can get. You not only get a 1/1 minion and a 1/3 weapon, but also Patches which represents a bunch of early damage and the ability to trade into early game minions.

You could maybe argue for removing one Mortal Strike, but it would likely be for something like Bittertide Hydra. I would NEVER put Polluted Hoarder (too slow) in this deck, and Commanding Shout wouldn’t be high on my list of cards to add to this deck (it’s dead in the early game, and is only good in certain situations).

I think the major reason people have been complaining about this deck is that it’s flat out not as powerful as it used to be. The meta is way more balanced now, and this deck gets countered by a few popular decks. The other reason is people are likely playing it wrong. You need to play smarter than before and make trades to maximize every single point of damage. This is especially the case now because the deck isn’t as overpowered as it once was.

Well, thank you for the explanation. Like I said, it works for me at casual, but I can see what you’re saying against high-end ranked. When I play this exact deck in casual (minus Leeroy which I don’t have +Cpt Greenskin) I tend to do around 15 damage right off the bat and suddenly I have no cards, no draw, and no board control, so the draw subs really help in that situation, since I can at least have something in hand as a response.

There are no words for what I just read! Patches, if Im not mistaken, tends to be one of the most, if not THE most used Legendary in tournaments! His tempo, deck thinning and synergy are just too good. Sure, its just a crappy 1/1… thats free… with charge… in a pirate deck… that thins the deck for better draws. Is that enough reasons?

N’Zoth First Mate, the sexiest thing you could possibly have on a turn one drop.

I’m not going to call you out and be a dick so I’ll take time to explain it.

Patches forms part of an engine. In every card game, deck thinning and draw power wins games. It’s a known fact.
Patches for all purposes is weak. But, his overall presence is above average.
He puts early game pressure on your opponent and thins the deck by one, allowing you to see your cards quicker.
Mortal strike and heroic strike are two sides of a coin. Mortal strike allows you to face hit for that crucial finishing damage when they are walled uo with taunts and heroic strike can either be a 7 or 9 damage to face with weapon. It is large damage to the face that can’t be replaced
N’zoth as stated above with patches. Forms the engine. You want to see it in the opening hand. So two copies is optimal to have a better chance of seeing it. It gives a 1/3 with a patches on board. Giving you a two damage face hit on your first turn. Then giving your opponent two targets to remove.

i just dont have leeroy, (will craft soon i am new player XD) but until then, is bittertide hydra good replacement? or the chargers are better as suggested in guide?(reckless rocketeer, argent commander)

been playing this deck for over 30 games and you dont get better than 55 % win rate, a lot of decks just eat this for breakfast, moreover the number of bad hands is legio, the curve is to high with the naga

Would it be good to put a silence card like ironbeak in this deck? Currently hovering around rank 3 and most of my opponents have taunts. Loads of paladins and whenever a spikeridged steed gets played I feel almost like it’s an auto-loss.

I just get from rank 10 with zero stars to rank 5 without a loss with the account from my girlfriend I think it’s 16-0 it is just sick. One game against Priest was a little bit close the other were ok. I’m playing the deck often and it is important to trade right or to know what cards you can face the next turns and if it were better to hit the face with all you got.
played exact the same list excluding one Captain because she’s missing one and added a Golakka Crawler Captain were definetly better but I worked . HAve fun with it

This deck is pretty solid and I run one very similar. If you are net decking and expect to just walk up the ladder though, you won’t do well. For this deck to really shine you should know every possible play like the back of your hand. Playing fast improves the odds of your opponent rushing and making a mistake, and you need to play this thing fast (I will even drag my feet if playing against pirate warrior to counter that). If you haven’t won by the bottom of the 7th you are probably going to lose. If you have to think about what to do when playing this deck, you’re doing it wrong — one of the reasons people called it cancer. Play a dozen or so games in casual and try again.

I just climbed to rank 3 with the Deck. I did not play it before… great Deck I try to get to legend for the first time (open beta player inside :D)
Subbed 1 mortal strike for 1 golakka crawler or random 2-drop i guess…
thanks for your great work @hearthstonetopdecks.com

This deck works great against all decks except Mid Hunter. Thats why its one of the best decks. Just make good decisions and dont say bullshiet about Tier 1 deck that crashes Taunt Warrior, Mid Pally, all Rogue decks. With Hunters RNG is needed.

I don’t know who is in charge of updating decks and tier list, but there is something to do urgently on this website, which should be the best one for Hearthstone advices and tips.

First, this deck, with Hunter, Quest Rogue, Shaman midrange and some other decks need an update.

But most of all, the ranking of decks tier list is completly bullshit. For real, how can Pirate Warrior can be on tier 1 currently ? How can Aggrio Druid can be tier 2 ?? The number of War face in the actual meta has hugely decrease. Maybe it’s a question of time till they come back, but right now we cannot say this deck in tier 1.

This deck and Quest Rogue were just updated. Pirate Warrior is absolutely one of the best decks in the meta. Vicious Syndicate just released their tiers and Pirate Warrior was the number one deck across all ranks.

I am having trouble with the Midrange Hunter deck types. I keep running into Alleycat, Ratpack, Kindly grandmother etc. It’s tough to deal with all the minions with this deck type since there isn’t any board clear cards.
Any suggestions? I was thinking of maybe adding a whirlwind/ravaging ghoul/Taunt card and dropping the naga corsairs?

You should be able to handle midrange hunter with this deck list. I run into them often and only feel at a disadvantage when both of these things occur together:
1. They topdeck alley cat
2. We don’t topdeck Nzothh

Otherwise you have a good at them. Consider changing the way you are playing them

Like Anders said it’s likely because of the Standard rotation where all decks got switched to wild. If you select the deck in your My Collection area you can hover over where you name the deck and you’ll see a button for Convert to Standard. If you click that it should work for you again.

Guys. Cut 2 Ravensaurs and add 2 Mortal Strikes. I’m Pirate Warrior player and I now what it means. Its really dificult to beat your opponent without this card. Its just free damage. Ravensaurus is realy week card. Mortal strikes played me a lot of games. Just think about opponents Taunts or freeze. Good luck 😉

314/5000
Greetings, apologies, that you think the addition of “Mortal Strike” to the deck, for the subject of having burst and to be able to pass to the taunts ?, since the taunt warrior has several annoying areas and very strong taunt from 5 – 6 shift. Would it be nice to put one or two copies? And that could be removed for it. Thank you.

No problem son, I think it’s a good thing that someone thought about a deck for people whose brain is too slow to elaborate strategies 🙂 I mean, life is not easy for them, I like to think that they can do the same activities than “normal” people.

C’mon. Everyone is sick to death with this freakin’ archetype. Why the heck would you update this stupid list to the current meta. I’m so damn tired of seeing s**tty pirate warriors in hearthstone.Do you know how much games have been so dull and boring because of this damned list? Can’t you just fly off into the sunset and disappear from the meta forever already?!

I replaced one of the southsea captains for a second mortal strike. your enemies will put out as many big taunts as possible as that is basically the way to beat this deck. the second mortal strike has won me a few games.

I’ll be honest with you, I main Pirate Warrior, and I absolutely hate it. But I don’t really have a choice. I’m a casual F2P player, and it is absolutely impossible to get a decent deck unless you throw cash at Blizzard (especially with the horrendous Un’goro pack draw issues), grind forever, or get really, really lucky. I was one of the latter, and drew Patches from the free Gadgetzan packs you got from the quests when it was being introduced. And from there, I dusted a huge amount of cards and just barely managed to build a Pirate Warrior, though with a few holes due to insufficient Dust. Miles above the almost 100% basic Druid I was playing before.

I hate it. I’ve finally started being able to stand up to the stronger decks, but it’s no fun to play as. I barely ever make any decisions playing it, just Face (almost) all the time, and if I have a bad draw curve, that’s pretty much GG. But the pay model is not giving me much of a choice. Either I run my Pirate Warrior, or I crawl back to my Basic Druid which, while fun to play, just can’t really stand up against the current meta.

tl;dr: a lot of us are pirate warriors out of necessity rather than choice. Blame the game, not the Pirates.

Thanks for the long reply, Dave, I like when people express themselves. I see your point. My point is that the game exists for us to have fun with it.
If you hate a deck, you don’t have fun playing with it, even in high ranks. In this case, there’s no reason in playing the game. That’s the way I see things.

I prefer to use a basic deck I like and try hard to achieve rank 15, for example, instead of playing the grind ladder with a deck I hate and get rank 5+ every month.

About the money, there’s no doubt that buying packages help your progress in the game, but it’s not necessary. It just takes longer and you need more discipline to get gold and use it well.

But it’s a fact that it’s very hard for a free player to be able to play with every meta deck, every meta. The most common scenario is a free player being able to build a couple of tier 1/2 decks.

For me, Pirate Warrior is a coin. If you get a good curve, you win, if not, you lose. With the abundance of taunt minions in Un’Goro, the deck is having a hard time right now.

The answer to this is always, “what would you replace?” This list is pretty tight as is. Now that Finley is out of standard you could replace him with an Inner Rage if you wanted, but I think another Mortal Strike would still be better.

Hit Legend using this deck. Started using it from ranked 6.
Went (61-33). Good run, not proud of it but if you wanna climb fast,
this is the deck. Thanks for the deck list and good luck everyone!
Smorc.

This Deck 80% all RANKED are play this at the moment, boring… stupid… same same every day… its only carddraw which decide, no skill – no brain – just Face and and RNG….and RNG and face…. and face and rng… bla bla bla….

at the end… one positive… you will not win against dragon priest and midrange schamane….

I really enjoy this deck but it seems impossible to win against any shaman. I have played hundreds of games against aggro and mid range shaman – never won any. I managed to get to rank 6 this season so far. How to beat those broken shaman decks?

I made this deck without the 3 legends. Put in 2 horse riders and 1 rocketeer. At this point i wanted to craft patches or leeroy, but with un’goro should I wait or just run work or and deal with not having dust for new set cards

This deck got me from 20 to 17, but then the success stopped. What am I doing wrong? I can’t seem to win. I personally feel like I need more card draws, because I rarely get any of my 1 cost minions until rounds 7+.
I’ve gotten Finley twice in the last 15 games.

It’s hard to answer your question without seeing you pilot the deck. Are over trading or not trading at all? What do you keep in your mulligans? Also sometimes your opponents have their answers and there is nothing you can do. Maybe download a deck tracker and review your games to see where you went wrong.

One thing that might help is learning the most popular decks that are being played and try to memorize what cards are in them. It seems like a lot of work, but when you play every single day, it’s not actually that bad. Deck guides make this easier by the fact that many players will simply netdeck the entire deck from the internet, and little do they know they’ve just shown you every card in their deck.
Also, counting cards helps; let’s say you’re playing against druid. After he plays a swipe, note that or write it down, as it means 1) you can generalize the chance he will have another one by his deck and hand size and 2) you can be more aggressive with smaller minions
Third, it may help to watch friends play, especially if they are a higher rank. If you have any questions why they traded or not, ask and they will probably be happy to help you understand.
I’m playing something similar to pirate warrior atm, though I took out Southsea Captian, Mortal Strike, and Naga and put in Curator (4/6 taunt, draw up to 3), Dragonkin Crusher (9/9 for 6) and Fierce Monkey (3/4 taunt for 3, not the greatest but decent). I will know how good it is when I stop winning 😛
If you want to add me, I can spectate sometime or vise versa 🙂
Benji#1294

now i’m playing with Druid Jade, Shaman Jade and Shaman Aggro. I came here to see how to defeat this deck, its seems not balanced in the meta game to day. Very fast, i cant growup my staps on ranked because this.

Like, in an afternoon! From rank 15 to 9 now! It’s crazy! As a new player who couldn’t get much past 20, this is great! Can you direct me to a place where I can learn what Tempo or Control or other words like that means? Thanks again!

I don’t understand this deck at ALL. I’ve tried it several times and it’s terrible. Every single time I play its against someone with nothing but taunt cards, except one priest with a deck full of legendaries that just healed through everything. The only cards I don’t have are Leeroy and 1 Southsea captain. (I subbed a Cpt. Greenskin and a GS Pawnbroker). One of the biggest problems is removal for taunters with 5+ life, which means high loss rate when shieldmastas come out. Maybe at the top when no one uses shieldmastas, cheap taunts, or oozes it’s better? At the bottom EVERY deck has these. Removals take two cards at least, which stinks if you don’t get Sir Murgleton and warlock hero power.

You should really have Weapons (I assume you aren’t attacking face early with these) available or something like Heroic Strike to remove minions. This deck is pretty common for use in climbing the ladder, so I’m surprised it would be a struggle even at lower ranks. Not having Leeroy would be a problem, there will often be times you need him to get that last bit of burst to finish off an opponent. I would probably add Argent Horserider in place of the cards you mentioned.

Oh, you mean the opposite, weapons for removal and charge minions to face. I wish I had Leeroy but I only have 500 dust and that’s going towards Aya for my Jade decks since my legendary luck in Gadgetzan exp is terrible.

Is it just me who built this because I love Pirate themes and wanted to make a good, functional one since I noticed Pirates were an actual game archetype? (Yeah, I guess so).

Now Blizzard “threatens” to nerf “the archetype” because too many people play said archetype. Thing is, the only one minion warranting an actual “nerf” would be Small-Time Buccaneer. 3-2 for 1 mana is The Tempo of Tempos.

I really like the fact the blizzard killed all the old cards just so that this disgusting excuse of a “fresh,new meta” full of face infested decks can exist. Heck, whenever i play wild, my fun is completely ruined by this rotten deck. I can’t wait for a time when self made decks can climb the ladder can come again. these net decks just ruined my long time trying to collect all the top cards of the game. I’m just very disappointed that this awesome game has been reduced into this.

“Also, you might want to use the “Oops” emote to appear like you accidentally missed your Hero Power.”
Wow….. really deep guide. I just tried this deck. I have trouble on curve. Somehow I tend to get 4 mana card frequently. What a jinx

Hey, so I just have a question about the deck. Is it possible to make a pirate warrior deck with patches being my only legendary?? I only have enough dust to craft one legend and I don’t know what to make.

I’m fairly convinced that since the release of the “Mean Streets” expansion the meta has actually sped up rather than slowed down as Blizz might have intended… and this is one of the reasons.

The best way to lock down a Jade Golem deck – or any other late-game, big minion focused deck for that matter? Kill them before they can snowball; if you can survive the first few turns and heal back up, you’ve generally got a pretty good chance of beating this deck – Kazakus Renolock I’ve found fairs relatively well.

… but it should get an award for the deck most likely to make me mutter “yeah – f*** you, you brainless aggro motherf*****” at the monitor when I win.

Hearthstone should require a brain considering that it’s purpose is supposed to be a strategic card game which this deck is clearly not. And can someone explain to KENLEE that it isn’t about ‘expensive legendaaries’ but about your collection as a whole and because of brainless face decks like this a majority of cards blizzard produced that were intended to be played are not and THAT is very concerning and unhealthy for ANY card game

This deck doesn’t need a guide because you don’t need to think to do well with it.
Here’s hoping Blizzard immediately nerf patches and the one mana pirate so this stupid deck can go away already, maybe just get rid of charge minions being able to hit face all together or have unique effects like the hog riders so it encourages you to play creative decks with charge instead of this brain dead face s***. This is not fun and it is ruining hearthstone

Your comment doesn’t make much sense, the guy was being serious and making a healthy suggestion that would improve the game drastically.
I’m sure everyone who is continuously playing this deck is not feeling salty anymore just completely fed up with it, you can tell with all these veteran hearthstone streamers like Kibler and Kripparian that they don’t enjoy playing against this and these are people who love hearthstone more then anyone

This deck (with its variants) is ruining Hearthstone. I don’t care if someone plays an aggro-face deck, it is a legit way to play, but today I had 15 matches and 12 were pirate warrior. That’s too much. It seems everyone just want to become legend player using the same stupid deck archetype. I don’t get how this could even be fun.

It’s weird being on this side of canser. I usually like to play original decks that beat the meta. I had heard streamers say how broken Pirate Warrior was and that Patches needed to be nerfed. But it didn’t click with me until I played against it.

The deck is just strong. I guess this is how people that played Undertaker Hunter, Mech Mage, Patron Warrior, Secret Pally, and, most recently, Shaman must have felt when they were tier 1. If I wasn’t playing Pirate Warrior, I would be complaining about it. Instead, I’m just wondering why everyone else hasn’t already jumped on the bandwagon. It’s the single best deck right now. Period

I run 2 korgon elites in my pirate deck and find them absolutely irreplaceable. I also run leeroy as well, which has won me so many games in himself, as well as grapplehammer… Way better than featured list.

I used pirate warrior last season with fairly good success (I only hit Rank 5 as I wasn’t able to spend as much time as I’d like playing last month). I have updated my list since of course and find it similar to this list.

there are 3 card differences and I would like your thoughts on it. I have Hobart grapplehammer, Cap’n Greenskin, and Brass knuckles in mine… I’m open to suggestions. the cards I don’t have in my deck in comparison to this one are -1 N’Zoth first mate, -1 swamp ooze, -1 Patches the Pirate

now that I’ve had more time, after testing brass knuckles, it seems too slow for this deck.. in a higher mid-range (or possibly a control deck) brass knuckles would do better. I have since replaced brass knuckles and trying out Patches the Pirate 🙂